On the first day of its JavaOne conference, Oracle gave the attendees a preview of its plans for versions 8 and 9 of Java. Java 8, due for release in

At the Surge conference in Baltimore, developers complained about Amazon’s cloud computing services, but agreed that they are still better than the alternative. Andy Parsons, CTO for startup Bookish, complained

Adobe has announced that it will purchase Nitobi, the startup behind the PhoneGap open source mobile development project. The two companies say they will donate the PhoneGap code to the

According to NetApplications statistics for September, 54.65 percent of mobile Web traffic comes from iOS devices. That figure is somewhat surprising because although the iPad dominates the tablet market, more

A new survey of UK-based IT pros finds that 71 percent of those surveyed believe that self-taught developers are as skilled as those with degrees. In addition, 45 percent said

Mobile analytics firm Flurry has just released a new report that analyzes when end users are most likely to be using apps. As with TV, mobile app usage is highest

Adobe has recommended that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) adopt two new features for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard. The first, the CSS Regions module, allows text to

In an attempt to generate more developer interest in its Playbook tablet, RIM has announced that the Playbook will now support Android apps. However, the Playbook won’t be able to

Samsung has announced that it will work with Intel on a new open source mobile operating system called “Tizen” that will offer broad support for HTML5. The Linux Foundation will

When it comes to the discussion of whether to create HTML5 or native apps, most enterprise software vendors seem to have arrived at the same answer: both. For example, Salesforce.com

In many enterprise IT departments, the developers want to roll out new changes quickly, while the operations people want to go more slowly to ensure reliability. One way to bridge

If you’re a mobile developer who creates apps with multi-touch functionality, you can keep using the term “multi-touch.” So says the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which has

Recently, the open source OpenCL (Open Compute Language) has become much more popular. In fact, Evans Data Corp. says it now ranks as the second most popular HPC application development

Making good on a promise it made in August, Twitter has released the source code for Storm, a tool it acquired when it purchased social media analytics firm BackType. Described

Millenial Media, an independent mobile ad network, has released a new report on ad impressions for August. Android took the top spot, accounting for 54 percent of the market. Apple’s

The developers behind the OpenStack open source cloud computing project have released a new update with more than 70 new features and improvements. Codenamed Diablo, the release includes a new

When Nokia announced that it would begin selling smartphones based on Windows Phone 7, Qt developers who had created apps for Nokia’s Symbian platform wondered what would happen to their

According to a new report from Distimo, 72 percent of all App Store revenue comes from in-app purchases, an increase from 28 percent reported in June of 2010. Incredibly, only

In this article, Eric Spiegel recounts his experience of moving from his position as a software developer to becoming a project manager. One big first challenge was dealing with more

According to an unnamed source, Samsung “is planning to make Bada software an open source platform next year.” Bada is Samsung’s internally developed mobile operating system that the company puts

Adobe has announced that it will release version 11 of its Flash player and version 3 of its Air runtime in early October. Both boast better performance for 3D gaming,

Developers have had their hands on the Mango update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system for a couple of months, and soon end users will be able to